J. M. R. Parrondo

J. M. R. Parrondo
J. M. R. Parrondo
Born	9 January 1964 (age 60); Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Alma mater	UCM
Known for	Parrondo's paradox; Brownian ratchets; Physics of information; Statistical mechanics
	Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	UCM[citation needed]
Doctoral advisor	Francisco Javier de la Rubia
Other academic advisors	Thomas M. Cover; Katja Lindenberg[citation needed]

Juan Manuel Rodríguez Parrondo^[2]^[3] (born 9 January 1964) is a Spanish physicist.^{[not verified in body]} He is mostly popular for the invention of the Parrondo's paradox and his contributions in the thermodynamical study of information.^[4]

Biography

Juan Parrondo received his bachelors degree in 1987 and defended his Ph.D at Complutense University of Madrid in 1992. He started a permanent position at UCM at 1996. In the same year he invented the well-known Parrondo's Paradox, according to which 2 losing strategies may win while working together. Since then, the paradox has been widely used in biology and finances. He has also completed a lot of research in the field of Information Theory, mostly looking at information as a thermodynamic concept, which as a result of ergodicity breaking changed the entropy of the system.

Works by Juan M.R. Parrondo

"Noise-Induced Non-equilibrium Phase Transition" C. Van den Broeck, J. M. R. Parrondo and R. Toral, Physical Review Letters, vol. 73 p. 3395 (1994)

Notes

^ "Juan Parrondo - the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
^ While Spanish scientists normally use the first of their two surnames when publishing in English-speaking journals, Parrondo publishes under his second surname, Rodríguez being his father's surname and a very common surname in Spain, and Parrondo being his mother's surname.
^ In various sources Parrondo's name is sometimes incorrectly spelled "Parrando," an error that can be traced to a 25 January 2000 article on "Parrando's Paradox" (sic) in the New York Times that propagated the incorrect spelling.^{[citation needed]}
^ Sagawa, Takahiro; Horowitz, Jordan M.; Parrondo, Juan M. R. (February 2015). "Thermodynamics of information". Nature Physics. 11 (2): 131–139. arXiv:2306.12447. Bibcode:2015NatPh..11..131P. doi:10.1038/nphys3230. ISSN 1745-2481. S2CID 51800981.

External links

[1] "Juan Parrondo - the Mathematics Genealogy Project".

[2] While Spanish scientists normally use the first of their two surnames when publishing in English-speaking journals, Parrondo publishes under his second surname, Rodríguez being his father's surname and a very common surname in Spain, and Parrondo being his mother's surname.

[3] In various sources Parrondo's name is sometimes incorrectly spelled "Parrando," an error that can be traced to a 25 January 2000 article on "Parrando's Paradox" (sic) in the New York Times that propagated the incorrect spelling.^{[citation needed]}

[4] Sagawa, Takahiro; Horowitz, Jordan M.; Parrondo, Juan M. R. (February 2015). "Thermodynamics of information". Nature Physics. 11 (2): 131–139. arXiv:2306.12447. Bibcode:2015NatPh..11..131P. doi:10.1038/nphys3230. ISSN 1745-2481. S2CID 51800981.

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Biography

Works by Juan M.R. Parrondo

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